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VIENNA (Reuters) Lawmakers from the pro-Russia, far-right Freedom Party walked out of the lower house of Austria's parliament on Thursday during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, protesting that it violated Austria's neutrality....

BOAO, China (Reuters) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday urged Asian countries to reciprocate and open their markets to Western companies....

BEIJING (Reuters) Nuclear submarine cooperation between Australia, the United States and Britain may may spark an arms race, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday....

By Waakhe Wudu JUBA (Reuters) South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has appointed a member of his own party as defence minister, according to a decree read on state media, breaching a peace deal in which the role should be selected by the party of opposi...

By Ellen Zhang and Marius Zaharia BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) Some of China's most indebted local governments are on a hiring spree, a move that analysts say could put fragile regional finances under more strain as officials seek to create jobs for a ...

By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) Canada's ATCO Ltd has agreed to transfer ownership to Mexico of an unfinished pipeline bogged down in a dispute with the Mexican state power company, two officials told Reuters, marking a rare breakthrough in ongoi...

By Lewis Jackson and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) Competition for Australia's lucrative A$2 trillion ($1.3 trillion) mortgage market is heating up, say bank chiefs, as hundreds of thousands of mortgage holders look to refinance fixed-term loans expirin...

(Reuters) Russia's navy fired supersonic anti-ship missiles at a mock target in the Sea of Japan, the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday....

(Reuters) Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a shop was set ablaze in a western district in the Ukrainian capital on Monday but there were no casualties and the fire had been brought under control....

SYDNEY (Reuters) Australian law would not allow regulators to wipe out AT1 tier credit holders while shareholders received some compensation as occurred during the Swiss government-brokered takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS, the assistant treasurer said on...

(Reuters) A major incident has been declared after about 200 barrels of reservoir fluid leaked into the water at Poole Harbour in Dorset, southern England, on Sunday, the BBC reported....

MOSCOW (Reuters) Two people suffered shrapnel wounds following an explosion on Sunday in the town of Kireyevsk, around 220 km (140 miles) south of Moscow, the TASS news agency cited emergency services as saying....

By Mahamat Ramadane N'DJAMENA, Chad (Reuters) Chad's interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby on Saturday pardoned 380 jailed members of an influential rebel group in an apparent bid to get it to join peace talks....

(Reuters) A Russian security officer who fled the country because he objected to the invasion of Ukraine has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in high-security prison, the Taiga.info news website reported on Friday....

HONG KONG (Reuters) Hong Kong firefighters battled to control a blaze at a warehouse in the city's bustling Kowloon district on Friday, with smoke billowing out from windows and engulfing the white square building....

UK retail sales surged in February, supporting the BoE's more bullish economic outlook. However, the latest numbers will keep the BoE under pressure....

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) Naureen Ahsan earns more than twice the average wage in Pakistan, but the school administrator says she has no choice but to homeschool her daughters and delay their London-board certified final exams because she can'...

BEIJING (Reuters) China's defence ministry said on Friday that it yet again had to monitor and drive away the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Milius that entered its territorial waters in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands....

By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. corporate due diligence firm Mintz Group said on Thursday its Beijing office was raided by authorities and five Chinese staff were detained, stoking worry among foreign companies in China just as its capital h...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) The U.S. military carried out multiple air strikes in Syria on Thursday night against Iran-aligned groups who it blamed for a deadly drone attack that killed a contractor, injured another and wounded five U.S. troops, the Pentagon sai...

The central bank noted that the U.S. banking system was "sound and resilient"....

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia's parliament on Wednesday removed the dominant party in the Tigray region from a list of terrorist organisations, a major step toward establishing an interim regional government following the end of a two-year civil war...

(Reuters) U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will create two new national monuments, in Nevada and Texas, and launch an effort to consider expanding protections for all waters around remote Pacific islands southwest of Hawaii....

SEOUL (Reuters) North Korea appears to have fired multiple cruise missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported....

LONDON (Reuters) A public inquiry into allegations that members of British special forces carried out dozens of extra-judicial killings during night raids in Afghanistan gets underway in London on Wednesday....

KAMPALA (Reuters) A U.S. couple detained in Uganda since December accused of torturing a 10-year-old boy in their care was granted bail on Wednesday by a court in the capital Kampala....

ADEN (Reuters) A flare-up of fighting in Yemen's energy-rich Marib province is testing 10 months of relative calm, the longest stretch in an eight-year civil war, under a U.N.-brokered truce deal that lapsed in October but had largely held....

(Reuters) India's bluechip Nifty 50 index will end at around 18,000 points this year, about 5.5% higher than current levels but roughly flat with end-2022, as company earnings will be hit by high rates among other factors, BofA Global Research said....

PARIS (Reuters) Dozens of people were arrested across France after sporadic protests broke out hours after President Emmanuel Macron's government narrowly survived a no-confidence motion in parliament on Monday over a deeply unpopular pension reform....

(Reuters) India's bluechip Nifty 50 index will end at around 18,000 points this year, about 5.5% higher than current levels but roughly flat with end-2022, as company earnings will be hit by high rates among other factors, BofA Global Research said....

By Swati Bhat and Uditha Jayasinghe MUMBAI (Reuters) Sri Lanka has a difficult road ahead irrespective of how much funding it receives from multilateral and global financial agencies, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics told Reuters on Tuesday....

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TOKYO (Reuters) -Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Japan's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, as broadcaster NHK showed footage of Kishida boarding a train at the Polish border town of ...

By John O'Donnell and Andres Gonzalez ZURICH (Reuters) Days before a hastily convened press conference late on Sunday that would make the world's front pages, Switzerland's political elite were secretly preparing a move that would jolt the glo...

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) Asian stocks were lifted from lows on Tuesday, with the rescue of Credit Suisse stemming selling in bank shares, though the mood was fragile and the stress in markets had traders wondering whether U.S. rate hikes might...

By Michael Martina and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) Expected U.S. stopovers in coming weeks by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen are standard practice and China should not use them as a pretext for aggressive action toward the democratically governed is...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) Republican U.S. Senator Rick Scott said on Monday he will introduce legislation to create an independent inspector general to oversee the Federal Reserve, as he called the U.S. central bank "unable or unwilling to ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) When Ranil Wickremesinghe took over as Sri Lanka's president in July after a popular uprising ousted his predecessor, the South Asian island nation was engulfed in its worst economic meltdown in 75 years....

(Reuters) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a nearly $3 billion bailout for Sri Lanka, which could help the country unlock up to $7 billion more from other lenders such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank....

By Maya Gebeily GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) After surviving a chemical attack in Syria, Douaa Idris, her husband and two children fled across the border to southern Turkey where they painstakingly rebuilt their lives as refugees....

By David Randall and Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) Worries over the banking crisis are boosting disparate assets, with traditional safe-havens such as gold, Treasuries and money markets seeing high demand along with more speculative instruments such ...

(Reuters) Russia is coordinating with Syria, Iran and Turkey on a schedule for a meeting of their deputy foreign ministers, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told the state RIA news agency on Tuesday....

By Laila Kearney (Reuters) Oil prices stabilised on Tuesday after falling early in the previous session on investor worries that recent banking-sector problems would weigh on the global economy and limit demand for crude....

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By Tyrone Siu and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested a veteran pro-democracy politician who was granted bail last August for medical treatment after spending more than a year in detention on a subversion charge....

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Swati Bhat COLOMBO (Reuters) Sri Lanka will receive the first tranche of about $330 million from the International Monetary Fund in the next two days, and, going forward, disbursements would be tied to reviews that take place ever...

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) The U.S. government said it "respects" Honduras' decision to move towards establishing formal diplomatic ties with China, the Honduran Foreign Minister Enrique Reina said on Monday after a meeting with U.S. officials....

JAKARTA (Reuters) Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday voted to pass President Joko Widodo's emergency decree to cement rules on investment and jobs in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, replacing a similar 2020 law that had been ruled partially u...

(Reuters) A major fire burned a large church in Burlington, New Jersey to the ground on Monday, its roof collapsing as more than 100 firefighters and emergency personnel battled the flames, local media reported....